That is the first article I read in the Western press about the sectarian agitation practiced by the Sanyurah government: "From the beginning of the crisis, the government itself has played sectarian politics as a way to slow Hezbollah's momentum, a game that even some of its supporters admit is dangerous. In an almost unprecedented move for a government traditionally built on sectarian consensus, the Sunni mufti, Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, led Friday prayers at the Serail on Dec. 1, the first day of Hezbollah's protests, when hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah's supporters converged on downtown." (I can guess that the headline was not written by Shadid).